#FrescoFriday this portrait of Terentius Neo and his wife comes from the tablinum in the house in #Pompeii that takes his name (VII-2-6).
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The Romans were fascinated by Egypt, not just strategically or politically - such as a ‘bread basket’ or the Cleopatras - but also as a culture of deeply ancient gods and beliefs. This depiction of Anubis dates to the Hadrianic era.

📸 Fabio Caricchia

15th century Fresco of the Elephant, Duke's Courtyard, Palazzo Sforzesco, Milan

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The House of Venus in the Shell at Pompeii features a stunning fresco of a reclining Venus afloat on a vibrant blue sea. In the garden lush hedges are surrounded by a peristyle. #FrescoFriday

📷Andy Hay, F. Tronchin (Flickr)

I can’t believe that I forgot to tag #FrescoFriday on this thread! So here’s a closeup of one of two fresco sphinx fountains, situated in a fantasy garden (the background for a real garden).

#Pompeii #CasadeiCeii

#FrescoFriday ; from the atrium of the House of the Vettii at #Pompeii , a small panel with a scene of Cupid riding a crab; one of many daring and industrious Cupids depicted in the house.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Italy

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Pintura mural de la Casa de los Vetti (Pompeya), que muestra a Ixion condenado por su impiedad.
Es una de las residencias lujosas más famosas de Pompeya. Se conservó, como el resto de la ciudad, gracias a la erupción del Vesubio del 79 d. C.
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St John the Apostle, Beloved Disciple. Detail from crucifixion fresco, painted c. 1180, Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta in Aquileia, Italy:

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Reconstructed panel of ceiling plaster From the bath-house frigidarium. The painted panels were intended to make it look like a coffered ceiling for a vault. Later second century AD - Wroxeter 📷 My own.
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#FrescoFriday - A 'sacred landscape' from the west panel of the north wall of the Ekklesiasterion at the Temple of Isis, Pompeii (VIII.7.28). It's a gorgeous juxtaposition of imaginary architecture and nature. #Pompeii #Art

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8575)

Painted wall plaster from Roman Winchester (Venta Belgarum). Dating to the 2nd century AD, the fragment is part of the collections at Winchester City Museum. #FrescoFriday #RomanBritain 📸 My own.

Ancient Greek art for #FrescoFriday this week. Two swallows engaged in an 'air kiss' from the Spring fresco, from Akrotiri, Greece. 1600 - 150o BCE. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

After spending a morning recording mostly plain fragments this lovely piece demanded my attention! Lincoln Museum and Usher Gallery #FrescoFriday #fragsRfrescos2

#FrescoFriday - I love this mythological scene from an arcosolium (arched tomb recess) in the Sepolcreto Ostiense near Basilica di San Paolo: ca. 3rd Century AD. The panel shows Prometheus and Minerva fashioning man. #Myth #Art

Image: Museo della Via Ostiense. 📸Carole Raddato

Again using #FrescoFriday as a catch-all for ancient #polychromy , this week we're sending our love down a well on the #Palatine in #Rome - a well that dates to around the birth of the Republic. Like other painted #terracotta from this period, this #wellhead is sophisticated.

#FrescoFriday - A dapper lararium panel depicting Isis-Fortuna. She holds a cornucopia and sistrum, with her foot resting on a globe against which a rudder leans. From the House of Philocalus, Pompeii (IX.3.15). #Pompeii #Art

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8836)

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Aula Isiaca (30 BC) with the Loggia Mattei (16th century).
This part of Augustus' residence on the Palatine features original frescoes with references to Egypt and Renaissance additions from the Villa of the Stati family.
Parco Archeo Colosseo.
📸 my own.

🪔 For #FrescoFriday : a wall-painting with a reclining Naiad, drinking from a horn. Dated to AD 30-50, it was found at a Roman villa at Campo Varano, #Stabiae . Now in the BM. 📸 me

#FrescoFriday : a sadly lost Pompeiian street shrine to the Twelve Olympians, or Dii Consentes, but that fortunately lives on in reproductions made in the 19th century.

From left to right: Venus, Diana, Apollo, Vesta, Minerva, Jupiter, Juno, Vulcan, Ceres, Mars, Neptune, Mercury.